"What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?"

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"What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?"

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David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

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William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

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